I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of … - Eliezer Yudkowsky

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This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

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